"My dear Paul - Many thanks for your kind letter with remembrances of my FATHER: I have just come up from the funeral over his ashes - we were all present except D'ARCY who is in CANADA, and they had the (current) CHIEF CONSTABLE of CARNARVONSHIRE and some of FATHER'S own policemen in uniform, and WELSH hymns and so on - all rather touching but very harrow, we shall SO terribly miss him..."

"My dear Paul, This is to ask you whether you would mind being mentioned in the book that I am now writing of Reminiscences. I don't think I would put anything you could possibly mind but I think one ought always to ask. I am also including a sketch of your mother as I knew her, and some letters of hers to me. Skipper said it was all right with him..."

"My dear Paul, I was glad to have your note in the middle of about 76 others from the Sunday Pictorial, by people who evidently think that I am a matrimonial agency. This is D'Arcy's address:..."